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On the Air: Cy, Rachael, Gabe and Sarah’s Do List Picks for Dec. 22, 2017
We called in the reinforcements this week — my KQED Arts colleagues Rachael Myrow, Sarah Hotchkiss and Gabe Meline join me for a special 2018 preview to talk about the upcoming concerts and exhibitions...
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Oakland Museum Gives Hip-Hop the Respect it’s Earned
We’re looking ahead this week on The Do List to a few exhibitions we’re excited about in 2018, among them Respect: Hip-Hop Style and Wisdom, opening in March at the Oakland Museum of California (OMCA)....
View ArticleThe Propeller Group Brings an Artistic View of Vietnam to San Jose
The Propeller Group was established in 2006 as a cross-disciplinary art collective. With backgrounds in visual art, film, and video, Phunam, Matt Lucero, and Tuan Andrew Nguyen produce work themselves...
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On the Air: Rachael and Trami’s Do List Picks for Jan. 5, 2018
Rachael Myrow here, pinch hitting for Cy Musiker at the start of 2018. Naturally, I picked a co-host from San Jose to talk about the upcoming concerts and exhibitions we’re most excited about now:...
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How to Start a Year of Bay Area Art Off Right
Welcome to the future! Last year I took the liberty of writing us a mutual New Year’s resolution, which I’m sure you completely stuck with. Remember? We vowed to show up more, to support the local art...
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At BAMPFA, Portraits Tell a Story of South Africa’s Past and Future
A newfound treat of walking up Berkeley’s three-block-short Center Street is the probability of peeking through BAMPFA’s large south-facing windows to see what’s up on the museum’s art wall. Taking up...
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Journey Doesn’t End in Andy Kincaid’s ‘Description of the Route’
Descending into Et al. gallery’s Chinatown location is always a thrilling process of discovery. Without a street-facing window (or usually any windows at all), knowledge of the particular layout of an...
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The ‘Friendliest Black Artist in America’ Comes to Stanford
Wiliam Pope.L is an artist whose work a lot of people have seen, even if they haven’t heard his name: he made the giant, extra-long American flag with 51 stars and its stripes in tatters that flapped...
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On the Air: Cy and A-lan’s Do List Picks for Jan. 12, 2018
This week, we welcome back co-host and playwright A-lan Holt to begin a new year of The Do List — and we’re championing some smaller arts organizations doing exciting work. They include the Oakland...
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Journey into 1963 with Comic Artist Diego Gómez
Whether crafting elaborate drag personas or drawing a provocatively apple-bottomed rendition of He-Man nemesis Skeletor, fantasy is clearly a specialty for San Francisco artist Diego Gómez. For those...
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Community Forms Around Art and Tech in Bay Area Living Rooms
When artist Liat Berdugo moved to the Bay Area after finishing her MFA at Rhode Island School of Design, she sought out a community engaged in her interests: arts and technology. She tried Meetup...
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Google Arts and Culture #Selfie App Inherits Art World Disparities
When an app asks you, “Is your portrait in a museum?” and you’re a person of color, it’s likely the answer is complicated. Google Arts and Culture — Google Cultural Institute’s eager nod to art world...
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Want to Be Part of a Giant JR Mural in San Francisco? Here’s How
Photographer and street artist JR, known for his large-scale black-and-white images of ordinary people (and his exceedingly charming film with Agnés Varda, Faces Places), recently arrived in San...
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One Year Later, How Are Artists Dealing With Trump?
In advance of the president’s first official year in office on Jan. 20, KQED Arts checks back in with some of the artists profiled in our massive ‘First 100 Days: Art in the Age of Trump‘ series from...
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GLBT History Museum Looks Back on Magazine that Birthed ‘The Queer’
It’s 1988: the year of the first National Coming Out Day, the year of the first World AIDS Day. ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power), a group of radical and mostly queer activists, take to the...
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A Personal Transformation Becomes Public in ‘Surface Tension’
In early 2017, San Francisco-based curator Dorothy R. Santos witnessed a performance by multimedia artist Joseph Liatela at the opening reception for We’re Still Working: The Art of Sex Work at San...
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200 Years of Eclectic Bay Area Art at BAMPFA
If BAMPFA’s grand coming-out party in their now two-year-old Center Street location addressed their immediate surroundings (new building, who dis?), their latest foray into large-scale group...
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At the Intersection of Art and Vinyl
I’m old enough to remember what it was like to spend hours listening to records with nothing more to look at than the album covers, which ranged from Blue Note’s black-and-white photographs of intense...
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On the Air: Cy and Ariana’s Do List Picks for Jan. 26, 2018
KQED Youth Media Manager Ariana Proehl is back as co-host to bring some hipness to the Do List this week. The real challenge was pruning down the list! I can’t remember a late January with more...
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With ‘Queer Movie Stills’, SF Artist Reframes Cinematic Romance
Grease. Say Anything. Titanic. The Notebook. At first glance the images in Queer Movie Stills look just like brightly colored renderings of iconic moments from popular cinema romances of the last four...
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